Empress Galactica

i love outer space in all its forms, fictional and real, known and unknown.

[without-ado]

Pluto Flyover from New Horizons l NASA APOD

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Star Wars by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer

[retro-scifi-and-fantasy-art]

Ron Walotsky (Brooklyn, NY 1943-2002)

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The Lobster Claw Nebula (Sh2-157, left) and the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635, right) // Bob Redding

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Computer wiring tunnel inside an abandoned coal power plant, photo by Bryan Buckley [1280x854]

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The word "eclipse" comes from ancient Greek ekleipsis, "a forsaking, quitting, abandonment." The sun quits us, we are forsaken by light.

Anne Carson, from "Totality, The Colour of Eclipse", in Decreation

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[otomokatsuhiro]

[photos-of-space]

Hubble Reveals Jupiter in Ultraviolet Light

[the-wolf-and-moon]

NGC 6357, Celestial Cathedral

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Sweeping spiral arms extend from NGC 4536, littered with bright blue clusters of star formation and red clumps of hydrogen gas shining among dark lanes of dust. NGC 4536 is also a starburst galaxy, in which star formation is happening at a tremendous rate that uses up the gas in the galaxy relatively quickly, by galactic standards. NGC 4536 is approximately 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered in 1784 by astronomer William Herschel.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lee (Space Telescope Science Institute); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

[maureen2musings]

Totality

“This is my high definition photo of last night's total lunar eclipse, created by stacking a total of 200 images captured during the totality phase.”

Astronycc

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Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft, which has been orbiting Venus since 2015, has captured a remarkably clear image of the planet's atmosphere. This image was taken using its infrared camera, revealing detailed features of Venus' cloud structure and atmospheric dynamics

[itsfullofstars]

[space-pics]

NGC 4449 (NIRCam) by European Space Agency

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Abell 21, Medusa

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Messier 42, Orion Nebula.

Distance: 1400 light years.

Credit: NASA, ESA, C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and S.K. Wong (Rice University).